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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-22
Time for Action.

Under this heading the San Francisco
Gail of yesterday, speaking of the effects OF
the interstate commerce law, said
The situation of California, so far as its
business depends upon the railroads, is be-
coming critical. The Canadian Pacific
company is rapidly completing its conpec-
tons so as to control through line from
Hongkong to London. This is a competi-
ton in every respect legitimate The Can
adian Pacific has right to the China trade
if it can get it. If the United States, with
its advantages in the way of location, can
not hold the trade, it must follow natural
laws and go where it can be done at the
lowest cost. Thequestion remains whether
the United States will help Canada TO take
possession of this trade. The fourth SEC
ton of the interstate commerce law is ad-
mirably adapted to accomplish that purpose
By that section our American transconti
mental roads are prohibited from making
rates that will enable shippers by American
routes to compete with shippers by the
Canadian route In requiring American
roads to charge local rates over the entire
route the Canadian Pacific is given great
advantage 1t is matter for regret that
in this crisis in our affairs the Pacific Coast
has not representative on the Commission
Admitting that the Commissioners are fair.
minded and generally able men, they have
no special knowledge of the workings oil
the law in California. Representing the
Central States, even if not more local in
their instincts than the average of men are
their attention is occupied with complaints
from people right around them A Pacific
Coast man on the Commission would i'm.
press his associates with the magnitude Of
the business interests they are called upon
to consider. 1t would make comparatively
little difference what rates were if they
were uniform on all routes.
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BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

The President of the New York Stock
Exchange thinks the business outlook
for this country is promising and ON asolid
basis" That the great industrial and
commercial interests are of encouraging
tone, labor strikes ended, capital and labor
i'll process of reconciliation, money easy
and investments of good character. He
accounts for the coming prosperity that he
believes is upon the wings of 1887 from
the fact that the depression common to a
great many people has passed away, and
their disinclination to extend their bust
ness has given place to a more hopeful
spirit. Working men all over the country
are now earning good wages, there is a
much better and safer feeling, and hope
has taken the place of dependency.
When this condition of affairs exists it is
sure to be promotive of the best results"
Mr.. Smith hopes for good judgment from
the Interstate Commerce Commission, and
thus disposes of the only real formidable
present obstacle to the progress of the
business of the country.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-22
TELEeRApHIc BREyITIEs.

Billy O'Brien knocked out young man
named Page in glove fight at San Jose on
Wednesday.
A sharp earthquake was experienced on
the whole Island of Jersey yesterday. No
damage was done.
Resolutions in favor of secession from
Canada have been introduced in the Nova
Scotia Parliament.
Three hundred Mormon recruits, Scandi-
navians and English, have sailed from
Liverpool for New York
Yesterday $50 men declined to accede to
the terms of Tiffany Il Co., silversmths
OF New York, and refused to work.
Thomas G. Douglass of Albuquerque, n.
NJ, once brilliant lawyer, has become an
imbecile from the use of morphine.
The people OF Metz are excited over the
manner in winch the arrested French Off
Ger has been treated by his German captors.
Horatio G. Brooks, President of the we'll
known Brooks Locomotive Works, died
on Wednesday of apoplexy at his home in
Dunkirk, n. y.
The monopoly marine insurance on the
great lakes has been broken by the compe-
tition of the Anglo Nevada Insurance Com
pany, of California.
II. Henley has been found dead in Oro-
vile, as the result of sixty days debauch.
He had been spending money left him
lately by bis father, who died in Indiana.
John Roy and William Carson, near
neighbors at Chattanooga, Tenn, quarreled
about piece of land on Tuesday. Both
drew pistols and sred simultaneously, and
both were killed.
The Pacific Railroads Investigation Com
mittee is in a quandry as to how to set to
work. The members can get no informa-
ton from the President nor other afficials
as to the nature of their duties.
genuine case of leprosy has been dis
covered in Louisville, KY The patient is
John Hastings, so years old. He visited
the Sandwich Islands three years ago, and
contracted the disease at Honolulu.
Gabriel Won Bulow, the last surviving
child of William Won Humboldt, was
buried in Germany on Wednesday The
table on which Alexander Won Humboldt
wrote Cosmos" will shortly be taken to
America.
A dynamite explosion occurred at a
lumber camp near Crystal Falls, Mich, on
Wednesday. by which Joseph Weismer, w.
Hornbrook, John Good, August Brash and
three others were fearfully injured, and the
physicians say they cannot recover.
The rains of Western Texas, which have
filled the heretofore dry channel of the
Brazoo river. have brought with the cur
rent mass of polluted carcasses that off
set the advantages of the rain and give
promise of disease The carcasses are
evidently from the alkali country, as they
are entirely devoid of hair.
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Referees Sale
or THE
Celebrated Bartlett Springs Property!

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE
i OF California, in and for the County of Lake
Order of sale. l.. E. MCMAHAN j. E &c
MAHAN and CAL. c. McMAHAN, by L. f.
McMahan, his Guardian Gd titem, plaintiffs, vs.
GREEN BARTLETT defendant
Under and by virtue of q judgment. deeree
and order of sale issued out of the Superior
Court of Lake county, State of California in
the aboveentitled action on the 18th day of
April, 1887, wherein l.. f. McMahan, j. E. Nc
Mahan and Cal. c. McMahan, by L. F. Nc
Mahan, his guardian dd Item, are plaintiffs
and Green Bartlett is defendant, the following
order was duly made and entered
This Court, having this day duly made and
entered an lnterlocutory decree fixing and es-
tablishtng the rights of ali the parties in this
cause in the lands and premises hereinafter
described, and it satisfactorily appearing To this
among the parties hereto without great preirI
dice 20 their respective interests therein Ii is
therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that
the whole of said land and premises be sold by
the Referee hereinafter named at public auc-
ton, for lawful money of the Omitted States, to
the highest bidder, upon notice published in
the manner required for the sale of real prom
erty on execution. And 1t is further ordered
that the said Referee before making such sale
publish notice thereof in daily newspaner
published in the city of San Francisco and in
the city OF Sacramento both cities being in this
Stste. And it is further ordered thai i. ri
BOGGS, OF Lakeport, California be and he is
hereby appointed Referee; and he is required
TO report his proceedings under this order no
hereof.
g The following is the description of the land
anu premises hereinbefore ordered 10 be sold,
70 wit: Lots six 70 and seven ~ in Section two
" IN township hiteen (l5) North range eight
west, Mount Blaolo meridian, and containing
lO acres, more or less, anG known as the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-22
A CLEAR VIEW.

The real essence of the long and short
haul clause of the interstate commerce law
has not been more concisely and clearly ar
alyzed than by the Bulletin in the state
ment that the operation of the law is a
marshaling of industrial interests against
each other according to location. Here we
have the novel spectacle of leading indus
tries contending for the enforcement of
Section a in some cases. and its suspension
in others, on the ground that it will retard
or advance the money making capacity of
such interests. As the Bulletin adds:
When the necessary rules are formulated, it is
not seen on what pretense Eastern competing
industrial interests can have any standing be.
fore the Commission in the adjustment of cues
tons which properly belong to other sections
These interests!haye right to be heard on their
own transportation questions and none others.
But every interest has the privilege of pitching
like interest located in some other part of the
country a state of industrial warfare will be in
augurated and the rooms of the Commissioners
Will be turned into the arena where it will have
TO be fought to finish. If such an industrial
warfare should be precipitated it will not take
very long to demonstrate that on one side are
ranged the South, the great interior States and
the Pacific States. and on the other small terri
tory in the northeast. The long and-short- haul
clause as now interpreted must make against
thosc sections which are the farthest from mar
ket There VIII be premium for those staples
which are produced nearest to the place where
they are sold. There cannot be any doubt what
ever ON that point.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-22
CALIFORNIA PIONEERS,
A Gathering of the old Boys" in Ne
York Wednesday Evening.

A Gathering of the '.OId Boys" in New
York Wednesday Evening.
A dispatch received from New York yes
terday states that at Martin Ellis on We'd
nesday night the days of 1S49 were revived
Such. old-timers as Demas Strong, Frank
Clark, Jim McCloskey, John Gault, Billy
Colligan, Dick Paulison, John H. Welsh,
Henry Wilson, W. H. Hampton, George
b. Roys and others enjoyed good dinner,
told stories and drank California wine.
When Secretary Clark read letter signed
by John s. Miller, Recording Secretary of
the Sacramento Society of California Pho
neers, the old boys present pounded on
the table with their glasses, and voted it a
success. Here is the letter:
Your communications addressed to the
Society of California Pioneers and to Geo.
w. Chesley, President Of said association,
were both received and read before the as
ISOLATION at its last regular meeting. The
Society were so well pleased with the
kindly manner in which you and your as
sociates spoke of us that both communica-
tons were ordered spread upon the records
of this association. Owing to the sickness
of our Corresponding Secretary, W. P
Coleman, the latter part of the
instructions has been delayed. Al
low me now in the name
of the Sacramento Society of California
Pioneers, also on the part of each and every
member TO extend to you and your Society
sincere thanks for the complimentary
manner in which you have seen proper to
mention our Society and your reception
while with us. We feel truly proud that
our mode of entertainment of our guests
should be so well appreciated by you and
your members. We do not make any pre-
tense at any elaborate and costly entertain
ment, but we do try to give our guests the
true, oldfashioned hospitality of the days
of '49. Our door is always open to VS.
itors. The latch string of the door is not
hung on the outside, for the reason that
years ago the latch was broken and we
never had any use for one since. We find
our guests feel more at home, receive more
genuine pleasure, and take it in such a
manner that they make us believe it is
truly more blessed to give than receive.
Your mention of President George w.
Chesley is highly appreciated by himself
and wife. A few more such notices and 1
think he will believe he ought to be Presi-
dent of the United States"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-22
REPRovED FOR oBEY1NG THE LAW

The New York Times is reported by
telegraph, in commenting upon the inter-
state commerce law, to have said that it is
somewhat remarkable that thus far only
the railroad companies have shown anxiety
for the observance or enforcement of the
law. This Is strange way of putting the
case. Would the Times have it under
stood that the railroad companies should
disobey the law and continuing doing so
until some one complains of them? That
the carriers have been prompt in observ-
ance of the law should rather be placed to
their credit than cited against them.
What else could the companies do? Take
the risk of being pounced upon and
heavily fined for every package of freight
carried in defiance of the law? The posi-
ton of the Times, to put it mildly, is alb
surd. Had the companies ignored the
law and made no new adjustment of their
traffic rates, and have continued to treat
long hauls upon the old basis-competi-
tion-and way rates upon the value of the
service, probably the Times would have
been among the first to denounce the cor
porations for defying the majesty of the
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DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N
....................A APRIL ee, 1873,
NEWS OF 1HE MORNING.

EAsTERN-Bepj. Sisson, while drunk.
butchered his wife with a Ratchet at Sisson-
VILE W. Va...Two cowboys were killed
by Kiowa Indians in Greer county, Texas.
Numerous petitions were made to the
Interstate Commerce Commission yester-
day against the operation of the new rail-
road law. Major John E. Blaine died in
Arkansas yesterday Coffee advanced
fifty points in New York yesterday 800. Ed
ward F. Bingham. of Ohio, has been ap-
pointed Chief Justice of the District of
Columbia Supreme Court Silver in New
York, CSC.
FoREIGN.-The Archbishop of Toronto
has requested O'Brien to defer his proposed
agitation of the rent question 49,. Much
feeling has been engendered among the
French by the arrest of an officer on the
frontier by Germans IAN outrage on a
Hebrew merchant of Alcazar. Morocco, is
reported. .... Gladstone has written letter
on the Irish question. THE Lord Mayor
of Dublin proposes the erection of memo
rial to Gladstone. 80. Home rule and anti
coercion resolutions were introduced in the
Ontario House of Commons yesterday
The land bill was debated in the English
House of Lords yesterday .....Silver in Lon
don, 43 1850.
PACIFIC CoAsT.-Four interesting races
took place at yesterdays Blood Horse
meeting.....A revolving story of murder
and rapine is reported from Mexico $50.
The big land grants in San Luis Obispo
are being divided Fresno is to have a
$500 900 hotel. Hines nearly made
his escape from the Red Bluff Jail yester-
day.....The first ripe cherries of the season
were yesterday shipped from Loomis,
Placer county. Kapiolani of
Hawaii, yesterday paid visit to San Ma
teo......Arthur Briggs, a brakeman, nearly
lost his life near Taylorsville, Sonoma
county, yesterday. Two incendiary fires
occurred in Santa Rosa Wednesday night.
--....Prince Frederick Leopold, of Prussia,
and Prince Louis Esterhazy, of Austria
arrived in San Francisco yesterday from
China.....F. J. Cache has been arrested at
Santa Rosa for swindling..... man ar
rested at Globe, A. T., has been identified
as Springer, the wife-murderer.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-22
Appointed by the Governor

Governor Bartlett says that anyone who
thinks his office a sinecure, with little
work and big pay, is certainly mistaken
He has been crowded with work from the
day he took the office, and only gets
through the daily routine by working early
and late. He made the following appoint
ments yesterday:
Trustees of the Northern Branch State
Normal School-General John Bidwell.
General James w. Montgomery, A. H.
Crew, +. G. Lusk and L. H. Mcintosh, all
of Chico, where the school is to be estab-
lished
Directors of Agricultural District No. 26,
comprising the counties of Calaveras and
Amador-C. Gardella, Mokelumne Hill
]. N. Holman, Wallace, and H. A. Messen-
ger, Valley Springs, for Calaveras. w. P.
Peck, Jackson F. Frates, U. S. Gregory,
B. Isaacs, lone City; A. G. Smith, Ply
mouth, for Amador.
Directors Agricultural District. No. l.
Robert McKillican, Alameda; Adolph B
Spreckels, San Francisco
Commissioners of the State Board oil
Silk Culture-E. w. Hilgard, j. ]. Rivers
Alameda J. B. Miller, San Francisco.
Director Agricultural District, No. IL
]. s. Carter, Greenville, Plumas county.
Notaries Public-George A. Hastings
Benicia: James Fl. Boyd, San Bernardino
Aaron Seeley, Templeton; Owen Wade
st. Helena; Isador Stein. Grass Valley
John Shannan, Sacramento, and Nathan
Scheeline, Elmira.
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Hawaiian Notes.

The latest dates from Honolulu, H. l..
brought by the Australia, are to April 18th
Sunday morning, April Sd. a slight
shock of earthquake was felt at Hilo.
Smallpox has made its appearance al
Lahaina, but every precaution has been
taken to isolate the single case reported.
The crater is still active. The small lake
on the southwest side of Halemauman is
still boiling, and there is bright reflection
on the northern side, but the smoke will
not admit of approach.
Samoan advices say that the Hawaiian
Embassy, which is there to negotiate a
South Sea federation, is building saloon
in front of its residence, and is debauching
the Samoans by treating them to liquor in
face of the law prohibiting the sale of in
toxicants to natives.
Eleven prisoners were brought to Homo
lulu from Kohala by the Kinau. They
were members of gang who have been
for couple of years OF more engaged in
illicit distilling in the Kohala mountains.
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Hong Di.

George Hing, a Chinese merchant
who came down from Chico yesterday
morning. stated that the Cinnamon at that
place were confid ent that Hong Di, the
murder er of Mrs. Billou, of st. John, was
hiding in the brush on Butte Creek, about
six miles from Chico, and that he was in the
habit of visiting Chinese houses at night
to get food. The Cinnamon disliked to
have him do so, but he was armed with a
pistol and they were afraid of him. They
report that he has grown very thin in flesh
since he became a fugitive. His father.
who lived at Chico prior to the murder,
but, fearing that he would be held.responsi-
BILE to some extent for his sons act, went
to Oroville to live for while. is said TO be
DESTROYS that his son should be captured.
and all the Cinnamon would like to see
him taken. Ex-City Marshal True, OF
Chico, was in Sacramento yesterday, and
in conversation about the murderous Celes-
tial be said that he had been informed that
Hong Di was in hiding in the brush near
the Chinese gardens on Butte Creek, and
| accordingly called a meeting of citizens to
organize party to hunt for him. They
went out on Wednesday and searched the
suspected locality, but without success.
True thinks the Cinnamon would give the
fugitive up to justice if they could, for
their own sakes, to say nothing of the re-
ward. His own opinion is that Hong Di
has shot or drowned himself.
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THE Suffers FORT FUND.

The proposition of the ladies that SUIT
ter's fort shall be purchased by Sacrament
ans and offered as a site fer the proposed
home" for invalid wives and widows of
soldiers and sailors of the army and navy
meets with warm approval, and subscrip-
ton has already been opened at this Office
for the purpose of forwarding the move
ment. A public-spirited correspondent in
another column points out how the money
can be raised by popular subscription, and
leads the list with 500. The matter
should be pushed, and the land at once
reclaimed from private ownership. 1t is
good investment, and even should some
unforeseen circumstance prevent the loca-
ton of the " home" at Sacramento, still
every subscriber to the Suffers Fort
FUND.- will be well secured by the share
he will hold in the property.
To secure the location of the home in
Sacramento a site must be donated. Other
cities all bid against us, but not one of
them can offer a situation so appropriate
for the purpose or so rich in historic
wealth. We should not fail in securing
the home" by any lack of public spirit
in providing the land and at once The
first movers in this matter will be most
likely to win the prize. But, we repeat,
whether the home is erected in Sacramento
or not, the old fort should be saved from
ruin and the property be put into good
condition and preserved as the chief
historic relic of the State, and one to which
Sacramentans can take visitors with some
degree of pride. The people who do some
thing to preserve the landmarks of the
past, and to provide parks and open
grounds for their city, aud the location in
ii of public institutions, always find ample
reward. 4 great deal can be done in Sac
ramento without large expenditure, to
add to the attractions of the Capital City
and IT'S desirableness as place of resi-
dence, and the movement TO reclaim the
Sutter Fort plat is a step in that direction.
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THE WOOL QUESTION

The San Francisco Chronicle is making
a desperate and despairing effort to bolster
up the interstate commerce law, to the APP
proval of which it rashly committed itself
by wholesale Its latest endeavor is to
convince the wool men that they do not
know their own business.
Suppose" it asks, that the present
rail tariff on California wool is prohibi-
tory, does it follow that California wool
growing should stop altogether In re-
Spouse it quotes the opinion of New Eng
land wool dealers, that the increased freight
will drive manufactures to the west where
raw material is produced, and where it
will be nearer to the markets of consump-
ton Now" asks the Chronicle, what
Is to prevent the application of this prin-
,ciple to California ~
The answer is brief and not difficult
the instability of the basis for increased
wool manufacturing here. We have al
ready shown that capital will not invest
IN manufacturing that must depend upon
a law which provides for its own suspen-
sion from time to time, according to the
Judgment ola Commission liable 10 change
IN its composition, and which is beset by
so many conflicting appeals as is the Inter
state Commerce Board
The Chronicle claims that under the law
as 1t Is, we can compete with Chicago as
far east as the Rocky Mountains, and with
Boston nearly as far as the Missouri River.
That is to say. the law will operate upon
eastern and western carrier routes about
equally to common central points between
the Atlantic and Pacific But this con-
sideration puts out of sight the water
routes, which are untouched by the law,
and the Canadian Pacific railway through
which the Eastern manufacturers can reach
us, when our own roads are handicapped,
and compete with our manufacturers at
their very doors. Wooden cloths too, are
staples that can take the long route with
safety as to market, when the shorter and
aSSb vi lTduc are
But suppose we may still compete with
Chicago for the Colorado, Wyoming and
Utah trade in woolens, what is to prevent
those section themselves engaging in wool
manufacturing and competing successfully
within where by reason of the unaffected
water routes and the foreign rail line we
are compelled to compete for home con-
sumption.
1t is one thing to bid the wool dealers to
go to work and turn the product into
cloth !" 1t is another and very different
thing to lead capital up to that point
where investment must be made upon
faith in the stability of the interstate
commerce law, which certainly will be
amended, if not repealed, and which is de-
pendent for its vitality, as to long and short
haul questions, upon the judgment and dis
erection of Commission.